Tuesday, February 21, 2017

I finally saw one of these boxes sitting at Wal-Mart and picked one up. For the price I couldn't complain about getting a guaranteed autograph, although I don't have high expectations for pulling a big name player.

As you can see, these cards are reprints of other cards. I took a picture of the back and put it down further below. There are a few cool reprint cards in here, but nothing mind blowing. Topps has reprinted some of these cards as "inserts" the past few years.

For my auto I got Scott Hatteberg. The only reason I recognize this name is from the scene in Moneyball when he hits a walk off homerun to extend the A's winning streak. lol

Monday, February 13, 2017

I purchased a few jumbo packs from my LCS last week. Unfortunately, I didn't get any hits, but I got a few Cubs and solid inserts.

Kyle Schwarber and Jorge Soler base cards.

Chicago Cubs World Series champions card!

Kris Bryant and Kyle Hendricks League Leaders inserts.

Dansby Swanson rookie card!

Evan Longoria 5 Tool insert - cool looking insert.

A gold Shin-Soo Choo out of /2017.

These 1987 inserts are awesome. Brings back fond memories of collecting this set as a kid.

After not getting any hits from the jumbo packs, I decided to hit up eBay and check out the autos for sale. I ended up finding a Jim Abbott auto and an Addison Russell manufactured Jackie Robinson patch for cheap.

A few days later I jumped back on eBay and saw a couple of the 2017 Topps Hobby Silver Packs for an affordable price. I grabbed both of those and pulled a Jose Altuve auto! These are chrome versions of the 1987 inserts and look pretty nice. I'm pretty happy with the players I received.

If you are interested in any of these, (minus the Cubs cards), let me know and we can work out a trade!

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

I've got some bigger things to post, but I wanted to do a quick pick up post here before I forget. I have done some trading recently with some friends on Twitter and picked up a few cards from eBay. None of the Twitter pickups are Cubs. However, I did go to my LCS and picked up a couple packs of 2016 Topps Heritage Minor League and found a Rizzo I didn't have in my PC.

First up is an Andy Pettite from 2016 Bowman's Best, a Harold Baines auto /50 from 2016 Stadium Club, and an Anthony Rizzo /199 from 2013 Topps Archives.

The Pettite insert is awesome because they used the 1996 design. I plan on picking up more of these.

The Baines auto popped up on eBay for cheap, so I grabbed it for trade bait.

Lastly, the Rizzo my LCS had, so I grabbed it for the PC.

Next up I have a couple of Gypsy Queen autos of Trevor Cahill and Christian Yelich.

The Trevor Cahill auto goes to the 2016 Cubs roster auto/relic collection I started. Check the PC tab on the blog to see how that collection is going.

Christian Yelich was part of a twitter trade I had. He is a good young player that I think I'll start collecting when I see his stuff for cheap.

Finally, the two packs of 2016 Heritage Minor Leagues didn't give me much. I got a cool insert of Billy McKinney and a blue border parallel /99 of Osvaldo Abreu.

I'll add the Harold Baines auto to the for trade section of my blog. More trade items will be added shortly, now that I'm organizing my cards.